Treaty with The Kickapoo
August 30, 1819
A treaty made and concluded by Benjamin Parke, a commissioner
on the part of the United States of America, of the one part,
and the Chiefs, Warriors, and Head Men, of the tribe of Kickapoos
of the Vermilion, of the other part.
Article 1.
The Chiefs, Warriors, and Head Men, of the said tribe, agree
to cede, and hereby relinquish, to the United States, all
the lands which the said tribe has heretofore possessed, or
which they may rightfully claim, on the Wabash river, or any
of its waters.
Article 2.
And to the end that the United States may be enabled to fix
with the other Indian tribes a boundary between their respective
claims, the Chiefs, Warriors, and Head Men, of the said tribe,
do hereby declare, that their rightful claim is as follows,
viz: beginning at the northwest corner of the Vincennes tract;
thence, westwardly, by the boundary established by treaty
with the Piankeshaws, on the thirtieth day of December, eighteen
hundred and five, to the dividing ridge between the waters
of the Embarras and the Little Wabash; thence, by the said
ridge, to the source of the Vermilion river; thence, by the
same ridge, to the head of Pine creek; thence, by the said
creek, to the Wabash river; thence, by the said river, to
the mouth of the Vermilion river, and thence by the Vermilion,
and the boundary heretofore established, to the place of beginning.
Article 3.
The said Chiefs, Warriors, and Head Men, of the said tribe,
agree to relinquish, and they do hereby exonerate and discharge
the United States from, the annuity of one thousand dollars,
to which they are now entitled. In consideration whereof,
and of the cession hereby made, the United States agree to
pay the said tribe two thousand dollars annually, in specie,
for ten years; which, together with three thousand dollars
now delivered, is to be considered a full compensation for
the cession hereby made, as also of all annuities, or other
claims, of the said tribe against the United States, by virtue
of any treaty with the said United States.
Article 4.
As the said tribe contemplate removing from the country they
now occupy, the annuity herein provided for shall be paid
at such place as may be hereinafter agreed upon between the
United States and said tribe.
Article 5.
This treaty, after the same shall be ratified by the President
and Senate of the United States, shall be binding on the contracting
parties.
In testimony whereof, the said Benjamin Parke, commissioner
as aforesaid, and the chiefs, warriors, and head men, of the
said tribe, have hereunto set their hands, at fort Harrison,
the thirtieth day of August, in the year eighteen hundred
and nineteen.
- B. Parke,
- Wagohaw, his x mark,
- Tecumcena, his x mark,
- Kaahna, his x mark,
- Macacanaw, his x mark,
- La Ferine, his x mark,
- Macatewaket, his x mark,
- Pelecheah, his x mark,
- Kechemaquaw, his x mark,
- Pacakinqua, his x mark,
In the presence of -
- John Law, secretary to the commissioner,
- William Prince, Indian agent,
- William Markle,
- Andrew Brooks,
- Pierre Laplante,
- James C. Turner,
- Samuel L. Richardson,
- Michael Brouillet, United States interpreter.
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